Types of Transports

In an attempt to make information suitable for eighth graders, Transports will be consider as those devices or methods used for people to move both themselves and their interests over the land, on the water and through the air. I do this distinction with the intention to match specific vocabulary words in regards to devices such as ships, planes, or cars, specifically to the environment to what they have been thought, water, air, land. In this manner, one can notice that for air means of transportation is widely use the preposition through as in “a plane moves through the air.” For water means of transportation one would use the preposition on or under as in “Ships move on the ocean”, or “Submarines move under the ocean”. Finally one can use the preposition over to state that “a car moves over the land”. In addition, one can practice the singular and plural noun forms when trying to produce sentences such in the examples.

More information about means of transportation would be find in the following websites:

1)      Business Studies http://www.nos.org/Secbuscour/cc10.pdf

2)      Introduction, http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/705/9/09_chapter%201.pdf

Assignment

Look at the video posted below to relate what is seen with the websites’ information. Then, answer the next questions by using the comment button.

1)      What is a land mean of transportation?

2)      What is a water mean of transportation?

3)      What is an air mean of transportation?

4)      List all the transports that appear in the video
5)   Classify the list of transports into land, water, and air types. 

Assignment

1-First, read the background information over the history of transportations from next websites:

a)      http://www.buzzle.com/articles/transportation-timeline.html

b)      http://www.essortment.com/history-transportation-21230.html

2-Second, look at the video posted  below to relate what is seen with the websites’ information; then, answer the next questions by using the comment button under this post.

a)      Are horses, elephants, and other animal means of transportation?

b)      What is a wheel?

c)       What is transportation?

d)      What is your favorite mean of transportation?

e)      Is your favorite transport a land, water, or air mean of transportation? Why?

Note: There are links at the right corner of this blog; they are above the box of followers. By clicking on those links you will go directly to the websites required to develop the homework. Also, other information sources could be taking into account.  

 

Background

The first humans’ attempts of inventing means of transportation started in Mesopotamia or Asia six thousand years ago. Before this period, the transportation consisted of walking and swimming to move from one place to another.  Then, those beings learned to use animals and wheels to transport themselves and their goods. Later, to reach longer distances transports evolved to present with better and more efficient mechanisms. Indeed, during the Industrial Revolution almmost all the transportation means were optimized due to the advances in technology.